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Saturday, October 30, 2010

nobody loses all the time

A message from above? St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. April 2010.

Of course, the bird is not a raven, but it would be far better if it were! Planning is underway to introduce Henry and Ezra to the delights of the metropolis that is Melbourne, so before too long you may well see a couple of familiar faces lurking in the corner of a similar photograph…

nobody loses all the time (X), E. E. Cummings

nobody loses all the time

i had an uncle namedSol who was a born failure andnearly everybody said he should have goneinto vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol couldsing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself whichmay or may not account for the fact that my Uncle

Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusableof all to use a highfalootin phraseluxuries that is or towit farming and beit needlesslyadded

or by drowning himself in the watertankbut somebody who'd given my Unde Sol a VictorVictrola and records while he lived presented tohim upon the auspicious occasion of his decease ascrumptious not to mention splendiferous funeral withtall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and

i remember we all cried like the Missouriwhen my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched becausesomebody pressed a button(and down wentmy UncleSol